Bob Ward
Sub-Committee, Reptile House
At London Zoo, visitors used to toss coins into the
crocodile tank in vain attempts to stir some action.
Above our level
press thick waters.
Down here
we slither notes
permute out wits
divide infinitesimals.
We five discuss
we recommend
even, our snouts in line,
come to resolve
send strongly worded bubbles
wobbling upward.
Will they break to surface?
Weighed in our depth
we blink as down
loop slowly copper coins.